This morning we walked a few blocks to the historical center of the city looking for a bank machine. The one machine we could find would not accept my debit or master card (all bank machines appeared to be inside the locked banks). Darn!
After walking through the central market and MANY streets we headed over to a funicular that goes up to a church and sanctuary on the top of a high hill. It was blazing hot and the line up was long but eventually we got the ride up. NEAT!
Our hotel is just in front of the hill in the middle of the photo
We needed a break so we stopped at our hotel in mid afternoon.
Later we walked across the street to a hill containing a castle/palace. The views were great but the palace wasn't open.
I was starting to get worried about our cash situation as we are really low in Chilean pesos and our US dollars are not as healthy as I would want so I heaved a sigh of relief when we found the CITI Bank Chilean branch open. Our luck held as we were able to get pesos out of our chequing account. Mind you the roughly $100 equivalent in pesos cost us over $13 CDN in service charges, but , OH WELL I am happy now.
After picking up some wine and cheese for supper we returned to the hotel to store the food before we headed out to our new favourite restaurant where we enjoyed pisco sour's (a drink) and a plate of finger food that ranks right up there with the best we have ever had! I tried to talk the waiter into letting up buy some of the marmalade we dipped the food in but no go.
As we were walking home we came upon a group of four street buskers who were KILLING IT! They were so entertaining that somewhere over 50 people people were dancing and clapping to the music.
Unfortunately a local bar owner must have asked the cops to "address" the situation. Too funny. That poor cop was having to give the group a ticket but meanwhile people are buying the groups' CD (to probably help pay the ticket!) while others in the crowd are nicely suggesting that the policeman should just dance to the groups music. In the end the cop gave the group time to do one last song (which I wish I had recorded-DAMN) and everyone moved on. Wonderful experience.
Tonight we washed some clothes and I have caught up on the blog. We are in our room with the windows open and were able to hear bar singers doing their thing.
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